Thanksgiving is a very important holiday of the year in the United States and Canada. When the holiday comes, even people who are far away from home have to rush back before the holiday to reunite with their families and celebrate the holiday. , just like the Spring Festival in our country. So today’s old almanac will introduce to you the month and date of Thanksgiving, and the day of Thanksgiving in 2018.

Q: When is Thanksgiving in 2018? Answer: Thursday, November 22, 2018, the 15th day of October 2018 in the lunar calendar.

Thanksgiving is a particularly big holiday in North America, especially for Canadians and Americans. This holiday is particularly important. Even people who are far away from home have to rush back to be with their families before the holiday. Reunion and celebrate the festival. However, Canada’s Thanksgiving Day and the United States’ Thanksgiving Day are not on the same day. Canada’s Thanksgiving Day is on the second Monday in October each year, while in the United States it is on the last Thursday in November.

Tracing back to its roots, the birth of Thanksgiving is related to the ancient Indians in America, especially the cultivation of corn. On September 6, 1620, a group of British Puritans who could not tolerate religion took the Mayflower wooden ship and sailed to America. They drifted on the Atlantic Ocean for 65 days under the attack of fatigue, hunger, cold and disease, and finally arrived in Plymouth, the North American colony.

It was winter, the climate was severely cold, and the fields were lonely. The local Indians generously took out the corn and potatoes stored for the winter, and gave away the wild ducks and turkeys they had hunted. When spring came, the Indians taught them how to grow corn and pumpkins, and raise turkeys. Over time, the white immigrants and the Indians established close friendships.

With a bumper corn harvest in the autumn of this year, the immigrants held a sumptuous thanksgiving party and entertained the Indians with roast turkey and corn cakes. The Indians brought various corn products, roasted turkeys, pumpkin pies, wild grapes, corn wine syrup, etc. to the party. People sang and danced all night long.

From then on, at the end of November after the corn harvest every year, the white immigrants who settled here would hold a thanksgiving party. Every family would roast turkeys, cook corn food, and entertain the Indians. As time goes by, this kind of thanksgiving meeting has become a custom and gradually formed the Thanksgiving Day in later generations. In the beginning, there was no fixed date for Thanksgiving, which was decided by each state. It was not until the independence of the United States that Thanksgiving became a national holiday.

On Thanksgiving Day, the whole country in the United States is very lively. Christians follow the custom of going to churches to pray thanksgiving. There are costume parades, theatrical performances or sports competitions everywhere in cities and towns. Relatives who have been separated for a year will also return from all over the world, and the family will reunite and taste Thanksgiving delicacies mainly "turkey".

Thanksgiving Shopping Thanksgiving shopping has become an American custom. In the month from Thanksgiving to Christmas, the total sales of the U.S. retail industry can account for more than one-third of the entire year, which is the traditional peak season for discounts and promotions for various merchants. The crazy shopping month begins on the Friday after Thanksgiving, which is called Black Friday. The reason why it is called this is said to be because early in the morning on Friday, everyone rushes to the mall in the dark to queue up to buy bargains. There is a very vivid expression for this behavior, called Early Bird. .

The annual Presidential Turkey Release Ceremony on Thanksgiving Day began in 1947 when President Truman was in office, but in fact this traditional ceremony can be traced back to the American Civil War when President Lincoln was in office. One day in 1863, Lincoln's son Ted suddenly broke into a cabinet meeting and asked for the pardon of a pet turkey named Jack, because the turkey that was sent to the White House was about to become people's Thanksgiving dinner.

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